About the Book

Identity theft is the crime of this century, affecting every business, workplace and consumer in some way, directly or indirectly. It has a thousand different faces – family and friends, mail thieves and burglars, street gangs and organized crime, hacker collectives and state sponsored actors – not to mention the more than 50 million victims it’s already claimed in the U.S. just in the last few years.

And after two decades of fighting this crime, the crime appears to be winning – 2016 was the worst on record with more than 1 million new victims every 30 days. And a big part of the winning strategy is the collusion of identity theft with cybercrime.

Identity theft and cybercrime are two sides of the same coin, equal partners in the same crime spree, and it’s hard to fight one without understanding its connections to the other.

This book lays out those connections, and provides every consumer and small business owner with one of most detailed and easy-to-read insights into these crimes and the people behind them.

No more confusing advice, no more pointless recommendations – just straight-to-the-point wisdom from a highly respected and straight-talking expert who’s been fighting these crimes and criminals for longer than almost any other expert alive today.

Did You Know?

- There were an estimated 15.4 million victims of identity theft in 2016, a record high.

- That works out to nearly 1.3 million victims every 30 days or 1 every 2 seconds.

- Identity theft costs businesses and consumers an estimated $16 billion annually, which works out to roughly $1.8 billion every day.

- There were 1,792 reported data breaches worldwide in 2016.

- Those breaches exposed almost 1.4 billion data records.

- Identity theft was the leading type of data breach in 2016, accounting for 59% of all data breaches.

- There were a record 791 reported data breaches in the U.S. in the first half of 2017.

“Why, with so much pilfered data available to fraudsters, have more Americans not become victims of identity theft? Why is so much stolen data seemingly going unused? The primary reason, security experts say, is there simply aren’t enough qualified criminals to use all that information.”Buzzfeed, Sept 2017